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Sorry, folks, but as a Senior citizen who occasionally hitchhiked and even picked up an occasional hitchhiker during the early to mid-1970's, I would not give anybody I didn't know from a hole in the ground a lift,  much less hitchhike nowadays.  It's far too risky and it  deprives one of any control over what may occur if things go south, if one gets the drift.

Sorry, folks, but as a Senior citizen who occasionally hitchhiked and even picked up an occasional hitchhiker during the early to mid-1970's, I would not give anybody I didn't know from a hole in the ground a lift,  much less hitchhike nowadays.  It's far too risky and it  deprives one of any control over what may occur if things go south, if one gets the drift.

Sorry, folks, but as a Senior citizen who occasionally hitchhiked and even picked up an occasional hitchhiker during the early to mid-1970's, I would not give anybody I didn't know from a hole in the ground a lift,  much less hitchhike nowadays.  It's far too risky and it  deprives one of any control over what may occur if things go south, if one gets the drift.

Just for the fun of it, we watched the original movie of West Side Story from 1961 this afternoon. It's just as good, if not better, than the current release. I actually liked the 1961 sets better, as well as the performance of the song about Officer Krupke. The cast was really good on that. Richard Beymer as Tony was the cutest guy in the cast.

West Side Story is an American Film Classic.
In can't imagine a Hollywood schlock-master like Spielberg handling the script in an artistic manner. His work is always kitsch and grotesquely over-sentimental like a bad Broadway musical.
 

I disagree with you here, Benjamin_Nicholas.  I've seen enough of the new 2021 film version of West Side Story so that I can form an opinion of it, plus the stuff that came out about Ansel Elgort has re-enforced my decision not to see the whole thing.  
I can also judge whether or not I want to see a movie by watching trailers or previews of it, as well.

Hi, Lucky!  I totally agree with you here.  The old, original 1961 film version of West Side Story is my all time favorite movie, hands down, and I've seen it more times than I'm able and/or willing to count (but who's counting? lol).  I saw parts of the 2021 reboot/remake of the film version of West Side Story not long ago on a TV program that emphasized the comparisons of both the old and new film versions of West Side Story.  Between that particular TV program, having seen a couple of trailers and extra photographs of the reboot/remake of the film version of West Side Story, and, more recently, listened  to the soundtrack of the new film version of West Side Story on youtube just out of curiosity, my preference for the old, original 1961 film version of West Side Story was re-enforced.